Astronauts finish first spacewalk

Nov. 20, 2009

Written by

JAMES DEAN
FLORIDA TODAY

Atlantis astronaut Randy Bresnik may have an extra skip in his spacewalking step Saturday when he exits the International Space Station for the first time.

Sometime today in Houston, the 42-year-old Marine lieutenant colonel's wife could give birth to their second child, a girl.

"Anybody who's been through that experience can tell you, sometimes you can't plan those things as well as you would like to," said Brian Smith, a lead station flight director for the mission. "So we'll react and deal with it as it happens." ...